v0.4.2

[Firstp1ck]

Pacsea v0.4.2 — Terminal invocation reliability

Date: 2025-10-23

Highlights

• Fix: System Update/Install on XFCE now runs correctly. We changed the launch
  for xfce4-terminal to use --command "bash -lc '<cmd>'", avoiding the
  previous parsing issue where -lc was treated as a terminal option and the
  window opened to an idle prompt.
• Reliability: Terminal selection prefers PATH order. When multiple terminals
  are installed, Pacsea now picks the first one that appears on PATH, which is
  more predictable and honors user shell configuration.

Details

• xfce4-terminal invocation
  • Old: -e bash -lc <cmd> (could fail with “Unknown option: -lc”).
  • New: --command "bash -lc '<cmd>'" with robust single-quote escaping.
• Other terminals remain unchanged:
  • gnome-terminal: -- bash -lc <cmd>
  • kitty: bash -lc <cmd>
  • xterm: -hold -e bash -lc <cmd>
  • konsole: -e bash -lc <cmd>
  • tilix/mate-terminal: keep -- bash -lc <cmd> as before.
• Internal improvements:
  • Added a safe single-quote escaping helper for shell commands.
  • Ensure output file parent directories exist in tests to avoid sporadic
    "No such file or directory" errors when capturing argv.

Packaging

• Arch PKGBUILD: tests are now run single-threaded
  (cargo test ... -- --test-threads=1) to avoid PATH/env races in
  environment-mutating tests.

Upgrade notes

• No config changes required. If xfce4-terminal still opens to an idle
  prompt, check terminal Preferences → General and ensure a user-defined
  "Run a custom command" is not overriding Pacsea’s command. Disabling that
  option resolves most local overrides.

Thanks

• Thanks to user @MS-Jahan who reported and helped validate the xfce4-terminal behavior.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.4.2.